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NSWRA Spring Regatta 2008
Yesterday the Regatta season for 2008 began in earnest.
We have already had great performances from our aspiring representative
rowers at NSWIS Timetrials. And there was even a sighting of the "F"
troop on the Nepean River last weekend.
But yesterday all sections of the club were represented at SIRC.
We had our newest Juniors--both a boys quad and a girls quad--some of
them only rowing for a few weeks but now on the water and racing on the
Olympic course and having ...
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Mosman’s Olympians in Action
Over the last few days there has been some very quick racing in the early rounds of the Beijing Olympic Rowing Championships. As the fields all try to squeeze into the 6 lane finals, this will lead to some fantastic racing over the next few days.
Already going as quick as anyone has gone before is Mosman's own Dan Noonan, who stroked the mens quad to a new World Record in the first heat of the men's quad. ...
Olivia Heath back from World Juniors
Another of Mosman's shining young stars has just returned from Austria. Olivia Heath was competing for Australia in the Junior World Championships. She stroked the coxless four which came fifth in the A final against very formidable competition. It was a great result for her first try at international competition. Well done Olivia!...
Corporate Rowing
We are now half way through the Commonwealth Bank Corporate Rowing program -- and everything has been going swimmingly (thanks Torq)
Everyone has been pitching in and helping.
Senior rowers, Masters, Juniors (and their parents), Recreational rowers-all have been willing volunteers.
We even have a new "BBQ King" (Thank you Mark Connaghan)
Mark where would you be, though, without Linda putting the food on your table eh??
Many thanks Linda
Even boat damage has been minimal.............well, maybe just a rigger or two
And moreover and to boot ...
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Olympic Selection 2008
Hot off the press -- more fantastic news!
Amy Ives and Zoe Uphill are in the 4X for Beijing.
It has been a long and exhausting selection process, but Amy and Zoe have put in fantastic performances-- and now they are to become Olympians!!
They will be joined in the crew by Amber Bradley and Kerry Hore, and will be coached by our Nick Garratt out of the Pearl Bay Shed.
All members of Mosman Rowing Club are extraordinarily proud of the achievements ...
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Selection Trial ‘08 Update
This afternoon Dan Noonan and Peter Hardcastle were selected into the Australian Olympic team for the Beijing Olympics.
Dan was chosen to stroke the quad after a fantastic season coming back from injury last year. Dan won the national senior sculling title and the Interstate single, and Peter will race the single scull - achieving his dream after qualifying the boat for the Olympics last August in the Munich World Championships after a late call-up to replace Dan Noonan.
Unquestionably, the ...
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Doing us proud at the National Champs
Two interviews recorded earlier this week for Rowing Australia at the National Championships.
Dan Noonan - After an amazing performance, winning the M1x
Amy Ives & Zoe Uphill - After the heat of the W2x (they went on to get Silver in the final)
Great work guys, keep it up - we're proud ...
Our Fantastic Five
Everyone at Mosman should be, and definitely are, proud of the performances of our senior athletes at the recent Olympic selection regatta. With some fantastic racing and tough selection we are proud to announce that all four of our trialling athletes and head coach have been named in the squads from which they will be selected to represent this wonderful country in Beijing later this year! (see Rowing Australia official release [pdf])Women's Sculling SquadAmy Ives and Zoe Uphill executed ...
Regatta Reports
There are now less than 2 weeks to go until the State Rowing Championships- and on our results in the past few weeks, Mosman is going to have a great regatta out at SIRC on the 16th & 17th February!
Taree
Firstly, our weekend away at Taree, where we had competitors aged from 12 to 66. Every Mosman rower recorded at least a top 3 placing- and for most it was multiple gold medals. Or multiple whiskey glasses on the Sunday!
The Masters ...
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Who called the Firemen?
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John, December 24th, 2007 |
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Nick Garratt announced as AUS coach
Mosman Rowing Club is proud to announce that our Head Coach Nick Garratt has just been selected as coach on the Australian Olympic Team to Beijing.
This is Nick’s 3rd Olympics as a coach.
Nick will coach the womens quad scull in which Mosman Rowing Club has two members Amy Ives and Zoe Uphill vying for selection. Both Amy and Zoe were members of the 2007 Australian Rowing Team.
Mosman still has Tom Laurich, Dan Noonan and Peter Hardcastle trialling ...
A Brilliant Sunday of Birthdays
On Sunday we had a fantastic day at Mackerel Beach care of the Wear family who were hosts at their holiday cottage tucked away in Diggers Lane.
The excuse was a BBQ for the juniors and Nick's task (onerous) was to bring the ice. Amy's task (extremely onerous) was to ensure Nick actually got there.
Success! They both got there!
SURPRISE!!!
The BBQ turned out to be a surprise double header birthday party for Nick and Amy (not the same age. Well if ...
MRC in Chaser sketch
Well, last night The Chaser's War on Everything aired a skit with some of the boys from MRC.
The video is available here:
Peter Collett - Atlantic Challenger!
That fateful day has come when we need to gather together and give Pete a good send off on his Atlantic Challenge. It has been a rollercoaster ride to the start line but it looks like he will make it despite many obstacles along the way! This is a chance for us to say "See you soon" to Pete and for Pete and I to say a huge "Thank you" to all who have supported him in his somewhat crazy ...
Spring Regatta 07
Hi all,
On Saturday Mosman Rowing Club made its first major attendance at a regatta for the season - the Spring Regatta at SIRC. And what an attendance it was! Two trailers, two VW vans and Dolly's orange van were required to transport all the boats, which included 22 singles!!
It was our first new -style "Grade Regatta", and red and white zooties were everywhere- our elites, our juniors and our masters competing in every grade.
Jaxon was awesome in the U1X 1000- ...
Bowled Over!
Our favourite Irish import (Alfie) organised some fun over at the Warringah Lawn Bowling Club last Saturday after the squad had been exerting themselves during the NSWIS 5km Time Trial.
Below is a lovely photo of our beloved head coach to prove it!
In other news this weekend: NSWRA has done an Article on Pete's performance over at the US World Rowing Challenge, available in full at news.rowingnsw.asn.au.
Hardcastle beats Drysdale (NZ) in 500m USA Challenge
UPDATE: NSWRA has done an Article on Pete, full article available here:
NSW and Australian representative Peter Hardcastle (Mosman RC) has capped off an amazing international racing season after beating World Champion Mahe Drysdale in the 500m Sprint at the USA World Rowing Challenge: Floodlit Night Regatta on the weekend. In an incredibly close finish that saw the top four athletes finish within a second, Pete piped them all to take the line-honours in a time of 1:35.379. What ...
Australian University Games 2007
Congratulations to MRC Athletes at this year's Australian University Games (AUG)!
Outstanding results include:
Kieran Kobelke (ACPE): Gold - Men's Single Scull
Laura Robertson (MQU): Gold - Mixed Four; Silver - Women's Double Scull
Luke Freeman (MQU): Silver - Men's Lightweight Four; 4th - Men's Eight
Good to know that MRC having a good shot in University territory!
Personality traits in an eight
Thought you guys would like this
Cox:
It's pretty obvious what traits a cox must adopt and tries to learn to do a good job in this most unique position in the athletic world. I'll pass on the leadership stuff, napoleon complex garbage, and point out a secondary characteristic or two that coxes unintentionally inherit after riding in the box for a while.They can't drive a car anymore. They take 10 miles to change a lane, oversteer, can't find ...
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Hunter Minimarathon
Below are some pictures of the Hunter minimarathon this year. The normal marathon was cancelled due to impact of flooding on entries. However a small diehard group parttok in a minimarathon hosted by the Endeavor club.
The crew borrowed an Eight from UNBC - happened to be the "Spirit" from mosman. The outing was v cold and windy. Course altered to go to Morpeth. Did 4kph faster with wind and river than against - a wild ride.
Crew:
x-Jenny Pollock, s- Peter Anderson, ...
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Charity Fundraising Champion
As well as qualifying the single scull for the next Olympics, Peter Hardcastle has done something just as important: raising money for Brainwave, a very needy charity for kids with brain tumours and other brain disorders. Last Friday night at the Brainwave Ball at Luna Park one of the auction items was two coaching sessions with Peter.
This was a very generous donation for Peter to offer to give up some of his very valuable time preparing for the Olympics.The prize ...
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Vice-Captain & New Boat Procedures
Members,
As you may already know Tony Blay was appointed as Club Vice Captain on the 1st of September 2007. Tony has been a long term member of the Club and an active ns successful coach for many years.
Tony has built up a strong recreational rowing program and continues his youth development programs.
In addition to assisting me on Boatshed administration, Tony will play an active role on boat and other equipment maintenance and replacement, ensuring it is maintained in good order, ...
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World Masters Championships
As the selfappointed Social and Cultural attache of F troupe I apologize for the lateness of my tour report. Our campaign started at Lake Bled where we trained for 4 days. On the final evening we attended a civic reception with oompah bands and free beer to celebrate Slovenias world champions and the announcement of their 2011 world titles.Luke and all mosman elites, this is something to aim for as this is the most beautiful place.
We arrived in Zargreb and ...
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Recovery Techniques
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Note from Amy
Hi everyone!!!
Just wanted to say thanks on behalf of all of us for all the support, it means so much. It was an amazing experience to say the least, and personally I struggled to keep positive through the toughest parts of it.
But knowing that we had the whole MRC team behind us was a huge spirit booster for me, so thank you all!!
Zoe and I are in Myrtle Beach at the moment visiting my family - about to head out ...
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Message from MRC President
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Note from Zoe
Hi All!
Well... just wanted to start by saying thank you to everyone for your support over not only the past week but the past 12 months. You have all been absolutely fantastic and I don't think I would've made it over here without any of you! I have had a pretty awesome week. Although I didn't qaulify the boat for Beijing, I have learnt much that can't be bought or told. It's something that I needed to learn by competing ...
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Pete on the RA website
Here is the Interview with pete from the Rowing Australia website:
Peter Hardcastle has taken another step to his goal of qualifying the single scull for the Beijing Olympics with a strong performance in the quarterfinal
He spoke to RA after his warm down.
RA: Peter, there was a pump of the fist as you crossed the line, was that from satisfaction or relief?
PH: A bit of both really. Words can’t really explain how satisfying it is when you achieve a ...
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Pete’s Marlow Victory
Having a great start to his international season, it looks like Pete Hardcastle won his race quite easily at the Marlow 2007 Regatta.
Results: here
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Masters Nationals
Hi All,
I hear the MRC masters did great at the Nationals, would be great if one or more of you could fill us all in on the website, just email it to me and I'll post it up (photos are great too).
Cheers,
Luke
(MRC Webmaster)
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NSW Masters State Champs
Last weekend a group of 7 ladies and 8 men from MOSMAN ROWING CLUB contested the NSW State Masters Rowing Championships in Taree.
The results were fantastic with the Mosman Club winning an astounding 11 Titles between them.
The Club managed a clean sweep of the over 55 age group winning the Pair, Double, Coxless Four, Quad Scull as well as the prestigious Eight Oared event against some very good interstate crews.
In two weeks time the Club will contest the Australian Masters ...
National Selection Report 2007
Dear all,
A quick summary of our performances at the just completed nation al selection trials
In a very tough 11 days of racing, we are very proud to advise that Mosman has two new first- time Australian team members.
Amy Ives has been selected as the stroke of the womens' quad scull, and Zoe Uphill as our single scull representative.
We are all extremely proud of them- they fought their way through 12 gruelling races in conditions that were as stressful mentally as ...
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2007 Corporate Rowing Program
ANOTHER(!) MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
To all members:
The annual Commonwealth Bank Corporate Rowing program starts this week.
This is an important event for us, and the revenue we earn from it represents a significant part of the Club's annual income.
The program commences with a cocktail party on Thursday (hosted by the bank) at which crews will be assigned racing colours, training days and coaches. Thereafter, CBA crews will be training from Pearl Bay every morning until Sunday 6 May, when ...
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Message from Club President - April 1st 2007
Dear Members.
For those of you who don't know - or had perhaps forgotten - to day (1st April 2007) is the first day of a new era in the Club's history.
From today, we have formally separated from the licensed club at Mosman Bay and have established a new, unlicensed rowing club. The old club (which will soon change its name to "Mosman Rowers") will continue to exist and will continue to own and operate the licensed premises at Mosman ...
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National Rowing Championships, Nagambie, March 5-11
Mosman Rowing Club was well represented at the regatta, in both the selection test races and in the later interstate events. Nagambie as usual, was benign to dreadful. Will Liley, your friendly MRC correspondent, put together the below report of the highlights as he saw them (apologies to anyone not featured, but this focuses on those Mosman rowers going for representative spots).
Monday morning, and the wind was so bad for the single sculls heats that they had to row time ...
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Karapiro, New Zealand 2007
Last weekend (27 and 28 January) a team organised by SRC competed at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand accompianied by Mosman Rowing Club's very own Luke Freeman and Newcastle's Hugh McLeod. The crews performed extremely well, every crew gaining a place in their final. MRC Representation was in the following events
Men’s Senior Four: 3rd Place
Simon Nola (lwt)
Jeremy Anderson (lwt)
Luke Woods (lwt)
Luke Freeman (lwt, MRC)
Men’s U21 Four: 2nd Place
Luke Woods (lwt)
Dom Grimm
Phil Matthews
Luke Freeman (lwt, MRC)
Men’s Club Double: 3rd ...
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Fixed vs Dynamic Ergometers
There is an interesting discussion going on about fixed (Concept2-esk) and Dynamic (RowPerfect-esk) ergometers.
Starring in it is our very own Mark Campbell!
The following discussion is below:
Erg technique vs water technique - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2006/11/erg-technique-vs-water-technique.html
More on erg vs boat - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-on-erg-vs-boat.html
Everything you wanted to know about rowing injuries - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2006/12/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about.html
More on erg use - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-on-erg-use.html
Fixed vs Dynamic ergs - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2006/12/fixed-vs-dynamic-ergs.html
RowPerfect's response - http://fightindog.blogspot.com/2007/01/static-vs-dynamic-ergs-rowperfect.html...
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Manning River & Port Macquarie 2007
MOSMAN DIGS IT OARS IN AT THE MANNING RIVER AND PORT MACQUARIE ROWING CLUB REGTTAS.
On the weekend of the 13th and 14th January, a group of the Mosman Masters travelled to Taree for the combined regattas staged by the Manning River and the Port Macquarie Rowing Clubs.
Banjo, Dasher, Dolly, Dru, Chappo, Coon, Feral, Rocky, The Struikmiester, Titts, Willo and Lord Hardy were joined by Paul Bartels, Annie, Liz, Marg and Sally together with Crew Mascots Erica and Lois and Support ...
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Boat Naming & Christmas BBQ 2006
With great weather and 150 attendees at the function, the BBQ kicked off at 10am followed by cakes, muffins and unique red and white cup cakes celebrating both MRC and Christmas.
After great social interaction between the rowers, family and social members the boat naming began at 11am.
Mosman Club Captain John Dollisson, after thanking the organisers of the BBQ, Anne Taylor, Glenda Kirkby and Linda Read, introduced ...
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In the press Liz Kell and Pearl Bay
Two stories in Tuesday's Mosman Daily, both a good read.
Kell beats world's best (Mosman Daily, Crystelle Coulon)
http://www.mosmandaily.com.au/article/2006/10/31/718_sports.html
Rowers could stay open (Mosman Daily, Jane Igoe)
http://www.mosmandaily.com.au/article/2006/10/31/715_news.html
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